After the CarISBN: 978-0-7456-4421-9
Hardcover
180 pages
June 2009, Polity
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"Dennis and Urry show us how to do social science: how
to move effortlessly between the macro and the micro,how to
integrate problem spaces we once thought incommensurate, how to
understand how we got to where we are and where we might be
going." Journal of Sociology |
"Dennis and Urry exhibit a refreshing understanding of the sheer
inefficiency and inconvenience of cars."
Lynsey Hanley, The Guardian
"One great aspect of this book is that it manages to build some
possible and realistic view of the future without neglecting its
unpredictability. After the Car is a very inspiring book
that we would recommend to all people interested in the future of
transportation systems – especially those convinced by the
importance of carfree perspectives in building it."
Carbusters
"One of the toughest things to do is to anticipate
discontinuity, to envisage a world - a life - beyond the car. The
authors practice this art of the impossible in a fascinating way,
opening up the social and sociological imagination for alternative
paths of modernization."
Ulrich Beck, University of Munich
"A persuasive and readable summary of why motoring as we know it
is doomed. The authors systematically chart the new technologies,
oil shortages, environmental and other pressures changing the way
we travel and the world we live in. If you want to know what the
future might look like, this book is for you. Jeremy Clarkson is an
endangered species!"
Steven Joseph, Executive Director, Campaign for Better
Transport
"After the Car is a useful contribution to the debate about the
role of the car which poses some interesting questions about its
future."
Tony Bosworth, Friends of the Earth